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Nate Soares
President, Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Leads the Machine Intelligence Research Institute; co-wrote the 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Nate Soares (President, Machine Intelligence Research Institute) talking, from an interview on Odd Lots published Oct 12, 2026.
What Nate Soares said
Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All | Odd Lots
3 moments · 17 min
- 48:30
Automated supply chains could make AI self-sufficient
“Because building a fully automated economy is just the plan.”
at 53:22 - 1:03:47
A smarter AI is not a verifiable alignment plan
“this is not what a real engineering plan sounds like.”
at 1:07:17 - 45:02
Public actuaries could put a price on catastrophic AI risk
“open AI, you need to pay us a quadrillion dollars this year to continue this research.”
at 47:40
- 48:30